You are bidding on onecabinet photo from 1917out Vienna.

Motive: the Austrian Actor, vocal comedian, opera singer (tenor) and theater manager Carl Pan (1874-1928) in costume (Roman soldier).

Embossed in the photo Dating 1917.

At this time he appeared in the Wiener Bürgertheater and the Theater an der Wien.

Photographer:Photographic Art InstituteLudwig Guttmann, Vienna, Waehringer Str. 18.

Format:cardboard 21.9 x 10.9 cm; Photo 19.5 x 10.4 cm.

Condition: cardboard slightly bent, stained, corners damaged; the photo with small scratches, otherwise good. Please also note the pictures!

Internal note: Actor Vienna

About Carl Pfann (source: wikipedia):

Carl Pfann, also Karl Pfann (* 17. January 1874 in Vienna; † 7 May 1928 in Leoben) was an Austrian actor, comedian, opera singer (tenor) and theater manager.

Life: Carl Pfann was born the son of a meat butcher and his wife Franziska (b. brooch). He was married to the soubrette Suzanne Bachrich-Pfann, daughter of Sigmund Bachrich and aunt of Albert Bachrich. Their daughter Elisabeth Morgan was a dancer. She received her training in stage dance from W. Fränzl in Vienna. Her engagements: Vienna Volksoper, as a stage trainee in the Teatro Maria Vitoria in Lisbon. From here she came to Arabic film. She was married to Ernst Morgan, polyglot and comedian, brother of Paul Morgan. Carl Pfann found his final resting place in the Hietzinger Friedhof (group 56, no. 22) in the 13th Vienna municipal district.

Career: Without ever having had theater lessons, at the age of 28 he followed the newspaper advertisement of a traveling troupe that was looking for actors. He made his debut in 1892 as "Poldi Purzbichler" in the Waltz King in Tyrnau. More comedian trips through the province followed. In the same year he received an engagement for choir and small roles at the Landestheater in Ljubljana. When an actor suddenly left the engagement, Carl Pfann was given a chance at a solo role and did so well that he was hired as a teenage hero and lover.

His beautiful voice was discovered at the same time and in 1894 he was engaged as a singing comedian at the German People's Theater in Prague. In 1895 he made his debut at the Theater in der Josefstadt in the vaudeville Die Kleine Schäfchen and enjoyed general popularity there during his five years there.

In 1888 [do you mean: 1898?] he decided to take professional singing lessons and to devote himself to a singing career. In 1901 he appeared in front of the Viennese audience for the first time as an operetta singer at the Theater an der Wien. From 1902 to 1904 he came to the Brno City Theater as an artist for the first lyrical and youthful heroic tenor roles. In 1904/05 he was engaged at the Carl Schultze Theater in Hamburg and was then engaged by Hans Gregor to the Komische Oper Berlin (1905 to 1908), where he sang major tenor roles from the operatic literature. Then he returned to the operetta and worked very successfully at the Metropoltheater Berlin (with Fritzi Massary) and other Berlin theaters. At the beginning of the First World War he returned to Vienna. During the war years he sang at the Wiener Bürgertheater and at the Theater an der Wien, where he continued to perform even after the end of the war. In 1922/23 he worked as director and singer at the theater in Moravia-Ostrau (Ostrava) and then occasionally appeared as a guest at Austrian operetta stages until 1926. During his career, guest appearances have taken him to the opera house in Frankfurt a. M. (1903), to the Vienna Court Opera (1903), to the Court Theater in Karlsruhe (1911) and to the theater in Bad Ischl (1926).

Theater engagements and guest performances

1892: Comedy rides with various performances, e.g. B. in Tyrnau (Trnava)

1892–94: State Theater in Ljubljana (Ljubljana)

1894: German People's Theater Prague

1894–95: Pilsen Theatre

1895: Theater in der Josefstadt

1901: Theater an der Wien, Carltheater, Hoftheater in Wiesbaden, Kurtheater in Baden-Baden

1902–1904: Brno City Theater

1903: Opera House Frankfurt a. M., Vienna Court Opera

1904-1905: Theater Hamburg

1905-1908: Metropoltheater Berlin

1911: Court Theater Karlsruhe

1911-1912: New Operetta Theater in Berlin

1912-1914: Theater am Nollendorfplatz Berlin

1913: Theater Vienna

1914-1918: Civic Theater and Theater an der Wien

1926: Theater Bad Ischl

filmography

1916: The tragedy at Rottersheim Castle

Carl Pfann as an artistic subject: an autograph card from Carl Pfann forms the starting material for a wall exposure created in 2017 by the Austrian artist Birgit Graschopf. This 110 cm × 240 cm work of art is a black and white photograph that uses the wall or the room itself (in a Viennese private house) as the image carrier.